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Gathorall t1_j6w9xpb wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT by whitecastle92

Coming to the concepts of sensitivity and specifity.

The sensitivity of this test would have to be nery near to 100% especially when as you said, most people aren’t cheats; just a few percentage points off sensitivity can mean that a large absolute part of the people "caught" are actually innocent.

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bizarre_coincidence t1_j6w9qyl wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called 'Apprentice Bard' by No-Drawing-6975

There is also the issue of accuracy. When they are trying to give you a webpage, the page may or may not be relevant or accurate, but it is someone else’s content. There isn’t any responsibility on their part to be correct. But if they are generating the answers, suddenly they are responsible for their validity. They might avoid legal culpability (maybe), but enough bad stories of people relying on the bot, not double checking the info, and getting screwed could tarnish google’s reputation. If chatGPT weren’t being used as a toy, being dismissed as “just a language model” whenever it generates harmful bullshit they is blatantly false, it could do a ton of harm. If google had a chat bot used in any official capacity, people would either take it much more seriously or they would have to essentially ignore it.

People rely on google,their AI assistant has to be much more accurate than chatGPT for it not to jeopardize that.

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LAYCH88 t1_j6w0u3c wrote

Reply to comment by DjImagin in ‘This is greenwashing’: Shell accused of overstating renewable energy spending by pipsdontsqueak

Unfortunately the 40-50 year estimate is based on economically viable fossil fuel reserves. See Fracking and how that changed the industry in the US when it became profitable. We won't see an end to fossil fuel use in our or our children's life time. We just hope it will decline to the point of irrelevance.

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SwampyThang t1_j6w01ks wrote

Reply to comment by mermaidrampage in ‘This is greenwashing’: Shell accused of overstating renewable energy spending by pipsdontsqueak

It’s not hard, they’re a corporation which is bad to begin with but worst of all, it’s a corporation that actively works to destroy the planet to make money.

Oil corporations are the worst of the worst. Unless they give at least 50% of their profits to renewable energy then screw them all. Nothing they do is about helping.

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